Dr Cory Rodgers

Dr Cory Rodgers is Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. Prior to joining LAU, Dr. Rodgers was a senior researcher at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, where he was the principal investigator of the Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective project (2020-2023), which investigated the impact of interventions intended to promote “social cohesion” between displaced populations and their host populations. Rodgers was the Pedro Arrupe Fellow in Forced Migration Studies at Campion Hall from 2018-2020 and now serves on the Advisory Board for the Reconciliation Program of the Jesuit Refugee Service.

Cory recently co-authored an article entitled Social cohesion or social coercion? How policies to improve refugee–host relations can go astray.